PLAYS
Full Length Plays
SHANGHAI KADDISH — In progress
A Chinese-Jewish stand up comic travels to Shanghai to discover the truth about his mother’s unusual life in China and her relationship with the famous father he never knew. (Read full Synopsis)
HOUSE, DIVIDED — 2008
Estranged brothers confront differences about their Jewishness and their feelings about Israel when their sons make choices that force them to reengage. (Read full Synopsis)
Premiere — InterAct Theater Company, 2008
Nominated for a Barrymore Award for Outstanding New Play, 2008
LA TEMPESTAD — 2005
Prospero, the curator of a museum on Vieques, a small island off the coast of Puerto Rico. He is a man in exile, wary of his enemies and vigilant. Like his Shakespearian counterpart, he shares his island with his daughter Miranda. When his island begins to fill up with unexpected visitors who have flown in during a turbulent storm, Prospero must exercise his magic to keep everything important to him from being lost. (Read full synopsis)
Premiere — OHIO THTR, NYC, Produced by Resonance Ensemble, 2005
Published – Playing With Canons: Explosive New Works from Literature by America’s Indie Playwrights
THE BALLAD OF JOHN WESLEY REED – 2005
An impressionable freshman encounters a roadside profit and self-styled anarchist on the outskirts of a Colorado college town at the end of the hippie era when politics were personal and free love revealed its costs. (Read full synopsis)
Premiere — Theater Catalyst, Philadelphia, 2005
GIRL SCIENCE –2004
Lois, an up-and-coming historian, selects her great aunt Johanna, an eminent biologist and “forgotten pioneer of science” as the subject for her new book. Reluctant at first, Johanna soon relents, sharing elaborate stories from her seemingly charmed girlhood. But was it? When Lois’s work inadvertently reveals the startlingly tragic truth, both women are changed forever.
Pittsburgh Eco-Drama Festival, 2009
EST/Sloan Foundation Grant, 2006
MEMORIAL DAY – 1999
After the murder of her husband, a woman confronts her family’s desire to move her to a safer place, away from the community where she has lived all her life.
Premiere — Dayton Playhouse FutureFest, 1998
Winner, Pennsylvania Playwriting Contest, 1998
Winner, Eileen Heckart Drama for Seniors Competition, 2003
PRIDE OF THE LION — 1994
On the day before he reports to jail, an arbitrager convicted of insider trading tries to reconcile with his family. (Read full synopsis)
Premiere – Changing Scene Theater, Denver, 1996
Published — Playscripts
THE DOSTOYEVSKY MAN — 1992
A fired literature professor kidnaps a class to teach his final lecture. (Read Full Synopsis)
Semi-finalist, Beverly Hills Thtr Guild/Julie Harris Playwright Competition, 1993
Semi-finalist, Cleveland Public Theater Festival of New Plays, 1993